About me
edit- M.D. and Medical Informatics specialist with formal NIH sponsored postdoctoral training in the field. Experience in clinical and research IT management, design, implementation, and remediation of projects in difficulty in hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry.
- Pioneer in recognition of fundamental differences between business-oriented computing and clinical computing, and of the specialized competencies essential for optimal design and management of biomedical IT.
- Early advocate (starting ~1998) of web-based citizen journalism on avoidable EMR design and implementation difficulties and resultant patient safety hazards.
About Medical Informatics
editMedical informatics is a cross-disciplinary field that studies information-seeking activities and tools, analytic processes, and workflows in biomedical research and clinical care delivery. It focuses upon the innovative use of computers in clinical medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, and other areas of biomedical research. Specialized postdoctoral training in Medical Informatics is funded by The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) at a number of universities (see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html), and is provided by other universities via internal funds as well.
The National Library of Medicine at NIH believes that clinical care, biomedical research and education, and public health administration can be improved by the inclusion of informaticists (in-context information specialists) into work and decision settings. Informaticists are information specialists who have received formal graduate training and practical experience that provides a cross-disciplinary background in both medical science and information science. Their cross training provides a unique perspective on the acquisition, synthesis and application of information to problem solving and program development in clinical and biomedical areas.